Roberts said in accepting the gig that
he wanted to co-host the pageant “partly because it is a huge,
visible opportunity for LGBT people. Everywhere.”

“I know that the law is very vague
and still hard to interpret for many people,” Roberts said while on
the show's red carpet Saturday. “But it is discrimination and
that's definitive. And I don't think that the LGBT population in
Russia or anywhere should be marginalized to that degree.”